Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 57
But do not men sometimes act quite as cruelly towards their own fellow-men?
Who acts: you, men · What happens: do, not act
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 do | cc |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 act | advmod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 act | nsubj |
| 5 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 act | advmod |
| 6 | act | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 do | advcl |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 cruelly | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 cruelly | advmod |
| 9 | cruelly | cruelly | ADV | _ | 6 act | advmod |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 men | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 men | amod |
| 13 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 men | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 fellow | punct |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cruelly | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not act | present | men | cruelly, sometimes property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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